Dosage of Phellodendron

The medicinal material Huangbo can clear away heat and reduce fire, and can also treat jaundice and relieve heat. It has high medicinal value, but everyone should pay attention to the dosage of Huangbo, otherwise it will cause diarrhea and symptoms of poisoning. Therefore, for the dosage of Huangbo, we must follow the doctor's advice and it should not exceed 9g. Now let us understand the effects and functions of the medicinal material Huangbo, and then take Huangbo according to our own constitution.

Dosage and Usage of Phellodendron

For internal use: decoct in water, 3-9g; or make into pills or powder. For external use: Take appropriate amount, grind into powder and apply on the affected area, or decoct in water for washing.

Effects and functions of Phellodendron chinense

Clear away heat. Drying dampness, purging fire and detoxifying. It is used to treat heat dysentery, diarrhea, thirst, jaundice, paralysis, nocturnal emission, stranguria, hemorrhoids, bloody stool, leucorrhea, bone steaming and fatigue fever, red and swollen eyes, mouth and tongue ulcers, and swelling and pus of sores.

① "Ben Jing": It is used to treat heat accumulation in the five internal organs, intestines and stomach, jaundice, intestinal hemorrhoids; it can stop diarrhea, red and white discharge in women, and ulcers in the genitals.

② "Bie Lu": Treats frightened qi between the skin, hot and red skin, hot and red and painful eyes, and mouth ulcers.

③ "Materia Medica": It is used to treat male impotence. It can be used to treat bleeding from the lower body, such as chicken or duck liver slices; and sores on the penis of men, apply the powder to the affected area.

④ "Bencao Shiyi": It is used to treat blisters caused by heat sores, insect sores, dysentery, bleeding, and kill moths; decocted and taken, it can cure thirst.

⑤ "Bencao Gangmu" (Compendium of Materia Medica): It can calm the mind and eliminate fatigue, treat bone steaming, cleanse the liver, improve eyesight, relieve excessive tears, dry mouth, heart heat, kill rickets, treat ascariasis, scabies, and can be roasted with honey to treat nasal congestion, intestinal wind, and bloody diarrhea, and can also treat acute fever, swelling and pain.

⑥ "Pearl Capsule": Treats kidney water. Insufficient bladder, paralysis, weakness in waist and knees.

⑦ "Medical Origin": "The Secret of Main Treatment" says, it can purge the dragon fire of the bladder, facilitate urination, treat swelling and dampness in the lower abdomen, treat dysentery with blood first, and treat pain in the navel, and replenish the insufficient water in the kidney.

⑧ "The Secret of Using Medicines": Treats unbearable sores and pains.

⑨ "Lanshi Mizang": Drain the evil in Chong meridian. It is used to treat the symptoms of qi rushing up to the throat in summer, which causes shortness of breath, wheezing and inability to sleep.

⑩ "Compendium of Materia Medica": Apply to children's head sores.

⑾ "Modern Practical Chinese Medicine": For beating, bruising, and squeezing tendons, grind into powder and mix into a paste for application.